hi . . .

I have been working on a project
it's to program Pacman Game using assembly

it needs a counter for the number of dots earned by Pacman
I have done a counter but it doesn't counting numbers
it displays charachters like smily face, heart, and all these whose ASCII code starts from 00H to FFH

I put a variable
counter dw 00,'$'
and every time Pacman eats a dot the counter is incremented and
it worked
but the display wasn't as numbers, it was as I mentioned before :S

please if any one knows how can I let it counts and displays numbers !

Thank you . . .

Can you use anything from here? http://www.web-source.net/symbols.htm
Just send the ascii value to a string, rather than using integers.

mmmm
I read what the is in the link
but it didn't help me :S

mmm
can help me how can i send the ascii value to a string in assembly 386 ?

A String is internally stored in it's ASCII Form.
The problem with the 9H function of Interrupt 21h is that it outputs a string; which means that even if 41h (the number) was passed, it would print 'A'.

You'll need to convert the ASCII Value of each character in each string into ASCII Values of numbers like this:

Let's consider 'A':
A = 65
units = 48 + (a MOD 10)
tenths = 48 + (a-units) divided by 10
hundredths = 48 + ( (a - (a MOD 100) ) divided by 100)

Maintain a number like this:
ascii_val DB hundredths, tenths, units, 00h

And finally print ascii_val normally using Assembly.
Repeat this procedure for every character in the string.

I'd write this in a procedure if I were you.

I'm pretty sure that such a function has already been written by someone before. I'll try to look for it and get back to you.

Don't unnecessarily write something that has already been written before. That would simply waste your time.